Letter from William H. Welply to Edward O'Farrell, 10 May 1916.

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Letter from William H. Welply to Edward O'Farrell, 10 May 1916.

1 10th May, 1916 Dear Sir, Dr. Starkie desires me to send for your information
copies of two letters recently received from Sir Matthew
Nathan. These letters were submitted to the Assistant Com-
missioners of Intermediate Education who have furnished a
Memorandum in each case. A copy of the Memorandum is attach-
ed. Letter No.1 has reference to the inclusion of
Stevenson's 'Kidnapped' in the Intermediate Programme, con-
cerning which Sir Matthew Nathan forwarded correspondence
between the Educational Company of Ireland, Mr. Birrell, M.P.,
and Mr. Swift MacNeill, M.P. This correspondence is returned
to you herewith. I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant, W. H. Welply .
Sir Edward O'Farrell, C.H.,B.L., Assistant Under-Secretary, The Castle, Dublin Resubmmit when a Ch. Le. has been appointed
ECA 12.5.16

Letter from William H. Welply (b.1867), to Edward O'Farrell (1857-1926), the Assistant Under Secretary for Ireland. Welply states that William J M Starkie (1860-1920), the Resident Commissioner of Education, wished for copies of two letters from Matthew Nathan (1862-1939), Undersecretary for Ireland, to be forwarded to O'Farrell. These letters had been submitted to the Assistant Commissioners of Intermediate Education, who had issued memoranda in each case (which Welply enclosed with this letter).Welply says that one of the letters referred to the proposed inclusion of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Kidnapped' on the syllabus. This proposal had, Welply states, been discussed in letters between Sir Augustine Birrell (1850-1933), Chief Secretary for Ireland, and John Gordon Swift MacNeill MP, an Irish Nationalist politician.Following the partition of Ireland in 1921, William Welply became the Chief Inspector of the Northern Irish Education Commission.

William H. Welply
Edward O'Farrell
1916-05-10
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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0275.html)